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These are extraordinary times for the Middle East: Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen. Al Jazeera’s live coverage is the best: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ and they have many Creative Commons licensed clips up now: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ (Al Jazeera’s use of Creative Commons is groundbreaking and wonderful; thank you to everyone involved in this). At the very beginning of yesterday, the internet [...]

I’ve been on a bit of a Sherlock Holmes kick lately, rewatching the Jeremy Brett adaptations from my childhood (which are streaming on Netflix now). As Wikipedia tells us, Brett is considered “the definitive Holmes of his era”, and I am taking a great delight in his outbursts and moods — gestures that Brett introduced [...]

This year’s WikiConference schedule is shaping up nicely! Here are some of the events coming up: RecentChangesCamp Canberra – Jan. 28-30. See more information. This is the first non-North American RCC, and it’s due to the persistence and hard work of Laura Hale; I encourage all my Australian friends to go. RecentChangesCamp Boston — March [...]

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. There were celebrations all over the world — 290 of them on January 15. We had a conference and party in San Francisco, too: Complete with cake: (Incidentally, this image does not give the full scale of the size of the [...]